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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2010
Xianbo Zhang, Madison, WI (US);
Weibao Wu, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Haibin She, Beijing, CN;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for writing data segments to a backup storage medium. Data segments are sent from multiple clients to a shared backup server. The backup server writes the data segments for each client into separate container files and then flushes the data from the container files into the backup storage medium. After backing up all of the data segments from a single client, the server commits the transaction which includes flushing newly written data from any open files, closing the open files, and updating metadata for the newly written data. To reduce the amount of time needed to commit the transaction, the backup server flushes and closes container files prior to transaction commit time.